WEBVTT KAI: THIS HAPPENED BACK INSEPTEMBER.OFFICER ANGEL VILLARONGA, WASTHINKING HE NEEDED TO RESOLVEHE WAS ALSO THINKING, HE'S BEENTHROUGH THIS BEFORE.>> WHY DON'T YA'LL WANT TO SHOOTME?>> BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANT TO.KAI: OFFICER ANGEL VILLARONGA,RELIES ON HIS SKILL AND TRAININGEVERY NIGHT ON THE STREET.>> I DON'T WANT TO LIVE NO MORE.>> CAN'T YOU JUST TALK TO MERIGHT NOW?STREET, JUST DROP IT RIGHTTHERE.KAI: ON THIS PARTICULAR NIGHT INSEPTEMBER, HIS BODY CAMERA WASRECORDINGAS HE, AND OTHER OFFICERS,RESPONDED TO A CALL FOR A MANWITH A KNIFEWHO WAS INSISTING THAT OFFICERSSHOOT AND KILL HIM.>> COME ON MAN, JUST DO WHATYA'LL DO, JUST DO YOUR JOB MAN,.>> THIS IS OUR JOB.>> THAT IS NOT YOUR JOB.>> YES, IT IS.>> A MAN HAS GOT A KNIFE IN HISHAND, HE'S THREATENING, SAYINGHE'S GOING TO HURT SOMEONE OUTHERE, AND YA'LL, ALL OF ASUDDEN, YA'LL DON'T DO NOTHING?>> IT IS A KNIFE IN HIS HAND, ITIS A THREAD.>> I SEEN IT IN HIS EYES IT WASJUST LIKE, I JUST NEEDEDSOMEBODY TO TALK TO ME.AND HE GOT IT.HE GOT IT BY ME BEING THERE, HEHAD SOMEBODY TO TALK TO.MAYBE HE JUST NEEDED SOMEBODY TOTALK TO, NOBODY WASUNDERSTANDING WHAT HE WAS GOINGTHROUGH.KAI: WITH A LOT OF PRODDING,OFFICER VILLARONGA GOT THE MANTO TALK ABOUT A DISTRESSINGFAMILY SITUATION.HE WAS RELYING ON HIS TRAININGBUT ALSOPERSONAL EXPERIENCE.AT 13, HE WATCHED, AS HIS FATHERTHREATENED TO JUMP FROM A NYCBUILDING.>> HE WANTED TO COMMIT SUICIDEAT THAT POINT HIM AND MY MOMDIDN'T GET ALONG THAT WELL, ANDHE WAS IN CRISIS.KAI: BOTH HE AND OFFICERSCONVINCED HIS DAD TO CHANGE HISMIND, AND SAVED HIS LIFE.JUST LIKE HE DID, THAT NIGHT INBALTIMORE.>> I CAN TALK TO YOU.LOOK, I AM 38 YEARS OLD, I CANRELATE TO YOU BRO., THERE IS NOT A THING IN THISWORLD THAT I HAVE NOT PROBABLYDEALT WITH, THAT YOU HAVE DEALTWITH, OK?AT THE END OF THE DAY I'VE GOTKIDS TO GO HOME TO.>> I APPRECIATE IT.

Dramatic police body camera video of a tense night in west Baltimore showed a man with a knife who was on a mission to get police officers to kill him.

But one officer relied on instinct and personal experience to de-escalate the situation that took place in September.

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Officer Angel Villaronga was thinking he needed to resolve the situation peacefully. He was also thinking he's been through this before.

On the video, the man said to officers, "Why don't ya'll want to shoot me man?"

"Because we don't want to," Villaronga said in the video.

Villaronga relies on his skill and training every night on the street.

"I don't want to live no more," the man said on video.

"Can't you just talk to me right now? Everybody just stand across the street, just drop it right here," Villaronga said.

On a particular night in September, Villaronga's body camera was recording as he, and other officers, responded to a call for a man with a knife, who was insisting that officers shoot and kill him.

"Come on man, just do what ya'll do, just do your job man," the man said in the video.

"This is our job," Villaronga said in the video.

"That's not your job," the man said in the video.

"Yes, it is," Villaronga said in the video.

"A man has got a knife in his hand. He's threatening, saying he's going to hurt someone out here, and ya'll, all of a sudden, ya'll don't do nothing? It's a knife in his hand. It's a threat," the man said in the video.

"I seen it in his eyes. It was just like, 'I just needed somebody to talk to me,' and he got it. He got it by me being there. He had somebody to talk to, maybe he just needed somebody to talk to. Nobody was understanding what he was going through," Villaronga said.

With a lot of prodding, Villaronga said he got the man to talk about a distressing family situation.

Villaronga was relying on his training, but also personal experience. At 13, he watched as his father threatened to jump from a NYC building.

"He wanted to commit suicide. At that point, him and my mom didn't get along that well, and he was in crisis," Villaronga said.

Both Villaronga and officers convinced his dad to change his mind, and saved his life, just like he did, that night in Baltimore.

"I can talk to you. Look, I'm 38 years old. I can relate to you bro. There is not a thing in this world that I have not probably dealt with, that you have dealt with, OK? At the end of the day, I've got kids to go home to," Villaronga said to the man in the video.

The man gave Villaronga the knife.

"I appreciate it man. I appreciate it," Villaronga said in the video.

Villaronga said he hasn't seen the man since that night, but he'd like the opportunity to at some point. He is an 8-year veteran of the department.